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Conservation Competition: Perspectives on Agricultural Drainage During the New Deal Era

Allen, Davis

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2016, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, History.
The drainage of wetlands for agriculture has had a profound effect on the landscape of the United States. Increased federal involvement in the practice during the New Deal era forced conservationists within the government to engage with drainage policy in new ways. This paper explores these ideas by examining the conservation philosophies and goals of five different conservationists—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hugh Hammond Bennett, Henry A. Wallace, Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling, and Aldo Leopold—who worked within the federal government during the period and took distinct approaches to drainage. This illuminates the differences in their conservation perspectives that are not always apparent and illustrates how what different figures actually sought to conserve was fundamentally different.
Ted Steinberg (Advisor)
Peter Shulman (Committee Member)
David Hammack (Committee Member)
78 p.

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  • Allen, D. (2016). Conservation Competition: Perspectives on Agricultural Drainage During the New Deal Era [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1465488868

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Allen, Davis. Conservation Competition: Perspectives on Agricultural Drainage During the New Deal Era. 2016. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1465488868.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Allen, Davis. "Conservation Competition: Perspectives on Agricultural Drainage During the New Deal Era." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1465488868

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)